PostGIS Custom Function to Create Wind Rose

I’ve come across the beautiful GIS StackExchange question recently, asking how to draw a wind rose within PostGIS.

It’s pretty easy to accomplish this with a custom PLPGSQL procedure below, that takes line geometry, number of sections and radius of the inner circle as parameters.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ST_WindRose(
    line geometry,
    directions int,
    radius numeric
)
RETURNS TABLE (
    id integer,
    geom geometry(LINESTRING)
)
AS $ST_WindRose$
BEGIN
    IF directions % 2 &lt;&gt; 0 THEN
        RAISE EXCEPTION 'Odd number of directions found, please provide even number of directions instead.';
    END IF;

IF radius &gt; ST_Length(line) THEN
    RAISE EXCEPTION 'Inner circle radius is bigger than the wind rose diameter, please make it smaller.';
END IF;

RETURN QUERY
WITH rose AS (
    SELECT
        ST_Rotate(_line, radians(360) / directions * dirs.id, ST_Centroid(_line)) _line
    FROM (
        SELECT line _line
    ) a
    CROSS JOIN (
        SELECT generate_series(1, directions / 2) id
    ) dirs
)
SELECT
    row_number() OVER ()::integer id,
    _line geom
FROM (
    SELECT _line FROM rose
    UNION ALL
    SELECT ST_ExteriorRing(ST_Buffer(ST_Centroid(line), radius, 30)) -- inner circle
    UNION ALL
    SELECT ST_ExteriorRing(ST_Buffer(ST_Centroid(line), ST_Length(line)/2, 30)) -- outer circle
) a;
END
$ST_WindRose$
LANGUAGE PLPGSQL;

Wind rose created with this function might look like the one below.

Run it as follows. The line parameter should be a simple straight line made of just two vertices.

SELECT * FROM ST_WindRose(ST_MakeLine(ST_MakePoint(0,0), ST_MakePoint(0,1)), 12, 0.01);